religion

Essays with a focus on Swinburne or Browning or religion are solicited for aVictorian medievalism collection under contract with Palgrave. Essaysshould be appropriate for interdisciplinary undergraduate courses dealingwith Victorian medievalism and should not concern Arthurian or gothicmaterial. Please send questions and essays to lhollow_at_frc.mass.edu andjpalmgren_at_saintpauls.edu. Completed essays (4000-5000 words) in Chicagostyle should be received by June 1.

The Austrian Group for Applied Texts (Gruppe fuer angewandte Texte – GFAT)is preparing an essay collection that will focus on structures ofrenunciation within our contemporary society.

Accordingly, we welcome contributions from cultural and literary theoristsas well as from psychoanalysts, theologians and from other disciplines.

The short essays can relate to: sacrifice, martyrs, new consumer habits,certain representations of pain and suffering in media etc. Thecontributions will be published in English as well as in Germantranslation.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Finding the OX: Buddhism and American Culture (7/1/04)

The editors invite proposals of essays for a book on Buddhism andAmerican culture. Aimed at a readership across a wide range ofdisciplines, Finding the Ox: Buddhism in American Culture will collectessays that test and play with disciplinary boundaries between LiteraryStudies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studiesand Queer Theory. The proposed papers engage theoretical problems, offerclose readings of specific texts, or (most fruitfully) groundspeculative debates within the practice of mindful reading. Specificessays in the volume may consider:

Proposals sought for a proposed collection of essays entitled"Buddhism: 'Eastern' Religion, World Literature" on interactions amongBuddhist faiths, writings, practices and "Western" literature. Mostinterested in proposed histories of Buddhism and literature within asingle period (20-c British, for example); investigations of theinfluence of a particular Buddhist school or Buddhist text over time orover several texts, investigations of groups of similar texts bydifferent authors, or investigations of Buddhism within the work ofsingle significant figures, like Thoreau or Kerouac. Less interested ininvestigations of a single text unless it is an undeniably important

The New Contemplative Review seeks journal articles and short life-writingpieces for its first issue, on the subject of spirituality. Treatments ofliterature and spirituality are welcome: articles are welcome on anyaspect of the relation between literature and religion, except 'dogma';but articles of pure theological enquiry are discouraged.

Material Religion: The Journal of Images, Objects, and BeliefA new journal from Berg Publishers, Oxford

Material Religion seeks to explore how religion happens in materialculture – images, devotional and liturgical objects, architecture andsacred space, works of art and mass-produced artifacts. No lessimportant than these material forms are the many different practicesthat put them to work. Ritual, communication, ceremony, instruction,meditation, propaganda, pilgrimage, display, magic, liturgy andinterpretation constitute many of the practices whereby religiousmaterial culture constructs the worlds of belief.

The Winter 2003 issue will have a special focus on the influence of =Religion and the representation of religious practices on both American = literature and culture. Contributions may focus on one of the main =subtopics below: